#1 Martin Kay

Quote: This is a printer that will give you years of quality output :End Quote
I’d like a good printer that would give weeks of trouble free output… Lol! It seems that now printers are printing so fine a dot they seem more prone to heads blocking up which, to me, seem not as reliable as printers from years gone by.
I used a Epson R800 (I think it was) which gave really good A4 prints which I could sell to customers- however that petered out after the usual two year span or so. After that I never bothered with a quality printer, but got a cheap ‘office’ stlye Canon 2700 (£25 or so) which printed low quality photos (no decent blacks) and the usual letters etc. This printer would reliably print even if it had stood for a few months without blocking up. I though, hmm, I’ll get a slightly better Canon (about £70) and see how that goes… result after one letter and about four days the heads are blocked and still after three attempts to clean. Printer into the skip and back to a cheap office style Canon, which again prints reliably. Having worked in darkrooms for years I would like to print my own stuff but I’m seriously thinking of using one of the better online printing companies. The perception is that inkjets are expensive to produce because of ink cost- actually compared to professional hand printing costs (£15.00 for an A4) inkjets are cheap. The expense is when you are constantly trying to unblock heads- I’m not going to be printing every day or even every week so I don’t know if one of these printers is a practical proposition.

10:25 am - Monday, June 4, 2012

#2 Dashi

Hello,

Can anybody tell me what details are changed or repaired by Refurbished printers in case by epson r 2000,

Dashi

7:28 am - Tuesday, October 16, 2012

#3 Wendy McDougall

hello,

I am having trouble getting my R2000 to print using thick paper in the rear loader. The instruction manual is not clear and I cant find any tutorials to show me.

I have the printer settings as the paper ICC profile says, choosing A4 manual rear, and velvet fine art paper selected.

I am wondering if there is a trick as to how to load the paper exactly? I found I had to push the paper down a lot into the printer but it then reads that it is jammed

I’m using Hahnemuehler Photo Rag 308gsm paper

Help!

Wendy

11:44 pm - Monday, November 5, 2012

#4 Ron Thomas

Hi Firstly the info on the R2000 has given me more confidence in going to purchase this A3 Printer.at present I have the Epson Stylus Photo RX 700 of which I have had for some years,what is so good about it that I can clean the inkjet heads,a good alround printer which I will stilluse after I have tha A3.
What your info does not say what means there is to clean the heads,to me this is very inportant,I am told the Canon Printers self clean after using the printer,which tend to use lots of ink,
my 700 is manual to this so saves ink,I only clean when required.
Hopefully the R2000 has a simular device, as this will convince me this is the right one to buy.
Also what about a manual is there one in the kit as lots of things you buy today dont seem to have.
Regards
Ron

6:43 pm - Tuesday, November 6, 2012

#5 Guy

I have recently bought a r2000 after the print heads blocked on my r1900 with the r1900 I had trouble printing onto (uncoated)watercolour paper( which I would later paint over). Can anyone advise what are the best settings for printing onto thick watercolour paper?

11:35 am - Friday, November 9, 2012

#6 Eric Burger

Epson Printers will not last more than about two years now. We spent top $$$ for a large format printer that is “no longer supported”, meaning “we don’t stand by any product that wasn’t purchased yesterday”. If you want a printer that lasts, do your research first, and stay away from epson. They are just cheap.

7:26 pm - Wednesday, January 2, 2013

#7 JJ

Have a HP Z3100 for most of my printing, and decided to buy the R2000 for smaller prints. All I can say is its not worth the cash, the inks run out so quickly not to mention the heads clog if you dont use printer ever few days. And quality wise is not much better then the Z3100. (and B&W suck big time on the R2000).  Even with the R2000’s Gloss ink, the bronzing on prints is horrible. Now, I barely use it.  And do to the ink cost I would rather waste the extra paper rolls on my Z3100 as its cheaper to toss paper then pay the price for the minuscule Epson inks. Now im going to look into using a CIS for the R2000 to keep the price down, if not ill toss it up on craigslist. :(

Ink Price:
*Epson inks: $22 for 17ml
*HP inks $60 for 130ml

4:06 pm - Wednesday, January 9, 2013

#8 JJ

“I have the printer settings as the paper ICC profile says, choosing A4 manual rear, and velvet fine art paper selected.

I am wondering if there is a trick as to how to load the paper exactly? I found I had to push the paper down a lot into the printer but it then reads that it is jammed

I’m using Hahnemuehler Photo Rag 308gsm paper”

Wendy, there really isnt a special way, you do have to “force” it a little bit, but to much and it will jam, to little and it wont load, you just have to find the sweet spot. If you are having to many problems with the rear feed, you should then try to use the front load as its what Epson recommends for fine art paper. :)

4:09 pm - Wednesday, January 9, 2013

#9 JeRust

I never knew that the chosen printer of the year would come from Epson. I mean honestly I’m not a huge fan of Epson printers especially their ink types, as I’ve got a lot of not so good experiences with those. After having two to three printers from Epson I decided to switch for an HP printer and so far there are less problems from which I had encountered with my latest printer buddy. But based from this review, well it kinda tells me that I should have given Epson another chance, probably for the nth time. Anyway I guess I’ll stick with this one that i have for now.

8:52 am - Thursday, January 10, 2013

#10 Maharg

How does the Epson R2000 printer compare with the R2880. I have had an R2880 14months and it is done for. The ribbons attached to the print head fractured and it was going to be very expensive to repair. I am an amateur Photographer and do a small amount of Photo printing. I don’t want a repeat performance with the new printer

5:23 pm - Friday, January 11, 2013

#11 Maharg

sorry typed in the wrong e-mail address

5:25 pm - Friday, January 11, 2013

#12 Epson R2000

Epson R2000 do excellent work,I really like it.I always use the compatible ink ,and save a lot of money.

5:35 am - Wednesday, March 20, 2013

#13 qqq

Here is a list of epson Stylus Photo Series Printers

http://www.britanniainks.co.uk/categories/Ink-Cartridges/Epson-Ink-Cartridges/Epson-Stylus-Photo-Series-Printers/

5:38 am - Wednesday, March 20, 2013

#14 anwar abdalla mohammed

iwant to ask if it print master log which we are use in oil field which the the paper length about 250inch’and the width about 9.5 inch
and also the print printing from infront and back

if like this where ican find it

sudan khartoum

thanks

7:51 am - Sunday, April 14, 2013